Could not mount device

ToadLurker · 10-06-2003, 11:45 AM

I try to access my floppy drive and I get an error box:

Could not mount device.
The reported error was:
mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device

could anyone tell me now to fix this?
(NOTE: I am a

)

Hans Zarkoff · 10-06-2003, 12:53 PM

Type 'dmesg | grep fd0'

What is the output?

ToadLurker · 10-06-2003, 12:58 PM

$dmesg | grep fd0
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M

(just so u know, i only have one floppy drive)

ToadLurker · 10-06-2003, 08:34 PM

Hans Zarkoff · 10-07-2003, 10:04 AM

Interesting... Try formatting a diskette by typing mke2fs /dev/fd0. Did that work? If it did, try mounting it and see what happens...